Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to make the default key binding for
>>>> gnus-group-get-new-news only fetch from a certain configured level and
>>>> below? I dont see it from the docstring. I do see I can prefix each time
>>>> but using agent and data roaming , the common use case would be for
>>>> "rescan" to only rescan high priority (or low level..) groups where the
>>>> boundary is a configured level (if set to nil it rescans all).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have gnus-activate-level set to 2 for this reason with most groups'
>>> levels set at 3 except for the high priority ones.  'g' is the command
>>> for rescanning (getting email into/from) groups.
>>>
>>> Assuming I understood your question correctly, of course ;-)
>>
>> Yes thats kind of it. Now let me explain (my!) confusion.
>>
>> The behaviour *unplugged* is where I'm at. Since unplugged you are using
>> the agent then it makes little sense to me not to activate subscribed
>> groups. I have already done a C-u 5 g in plugged mode to scan all level
>> 5 and below followed by a Js to download. If I then quit gnus and
>> restart later (gnus-unplugged is my new "on holiday" default start) then
>> since I can *see* the subscribed groups (the level of subscridness means
>> they are subscribed and visible) then there is no immediately obvious
>> reason not to activate them in unplugged too since its just a case of
>> displaying the group line activated with the already stored unread
>> count. As it is I need to C-u 5 g again (unplugged). Does this make some
>> kind of sense?
>>
>
> I think I do understand.  You may wish to set not only
> gnus-activate-level but also gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups to 5?  It
> defaults to 4, I believe.

That works yes! Wow. Thanks!  But "foreign group"? Why are they foreign
groups? They are groups attached to nntp servers defined in select
methods. Ye gods its complicated ;) ...